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TIL while talking about how he keeps the lore continuity organized for A Song of Ice and Fire, George RR Martin mentioned he's made mistakes with eye color, and accidentally changed a horse's gender between the first and second book

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Z6oQ TIL the visual effects rendered in Interstellar used pages of theoretical equations from physicist Kip Thorne and gave new insights into gravitational lensing and accretion disks surrounding black holes that led to three published scientific papers.
GAlyN TIL about Joseph Crater, a New York State Supreme Court Justice who mysteriously vanished amid a political scandal in August 1930. He was last seen leaving a restaurant on West 45th Street in Manhattan after having dinner with his mistress and a lawyer friend. His disappearance was never solved.
W7re8 TIL that the United States Supreme Court established that the tomato should be classified as a vegetable rather than a fruit under U.S. Customs regulations. The Court’s 1893 decision was meant to differentiate the technical botanical definition from the commonly used one.
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